Discussions about possible e-discovery-related changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are now being circulated by a subcommittee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, but any official changes aren’t likely until 2013, committee chairman and District Court Judge for Arizona David Campbell said.

The committee’s goal is to devise rules about the preservation and sanctions of electronically stored information. Current e-discovery rules were last updated in 2006 and cover issues such as parties agreeing to data formats and how to address archived or inaccessible information.

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